Aloha and mamaste everyone and welcome to him politics with John Heilman my

podcast for Odyssey and Huck coming at you every Wednesday and Friday with fresh topical

candy conversations with the people who roam the quarters of

powered influence in America from Washington to Wall Street,

Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and beyond, And every once in a while, the people who cover those people,

people at the pinnacle of power,

like the people who are currently running for president.

You may or may not recall that two and a half months ago

at the end of June, my partners Dylan Byers

and Peter Hamby scrambled the jets

and joined me for a late night taping

after the Biden Trump debate in Atlanta, aka the 90 minute

human car crash that changed almost everything about the 2024 election.

To this day it remains one of the most memorable podcast episodes I have ever been a part of,

and I will add if you are willing to take a stroll down a particularly dark stretch of memory lane

and give it a listen, I think you'll find that it holds up pretty damn well.

Peter and Dylan are both wicked smart and more fun than a barrel of drunk monkeys to

boot. So there was never any real doubt that when the first and maybe only 2024 general election debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was scheduled to take place last night in Philadelphia, the call would go out.

Puck Super Friends, activate, or rather reactivate.

And that Dylan and Peter would answer that call and come through with flying colors,

which you won't be surprised to learn is exactly what has happened.

Fight Night in the Cradled Liberty turned out to be a radically different affair than the

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